On Apr 17, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
Note that these changes will likely have *dramatic* positive impacts for systems running on servers under heavy computational load. Many of the oddities reported on Unix systems can likely be traced to this very problem.
I should clarify that the fix also requires changes in the Unix support code for it to be effective. Recompiling the 3.8 Unix code base with the modified forceInterruptCheck() will not make any difference to socket performance. An upcoming 3.9 release will include the changes, which are already checked in to SVN.
Cheers, Ian